The Los Angeles Times reports:
The duck boat that sank in a Missouri lake last week, killing 17 people, was built based on a design by a self-taught entrepreneur who had no engineering training, according to court records reviewed by the Los Angeles Times.
The designer, entrepreneur Robert McDowell, completed only two years of college and had no background, training or certification in mechanics when he came up with the design for "stretch" duck boats more than two decades ago, according to a lawsuit filed over a roadway disaster in Seattle involving a similar duck boat in 2015.
(Score: 2) by deadstick on Friday July 27 2018, @01:42AM
The best thing one can say about 50's cars is that horses are positively lethal in comparison. I doubt there's any more dangerous "vehicle" that's ever been used for routine personal transportation.
One of my mom's childhood memories was of a man lying dead with a horseshoe print on his face...